The study's authors also claimed the changes would BOOST cropland harvests is the US and China; a not-so-bad possible side-effect of overall warming.
Unfortunately, the authors were using the IPCC 2007 figures, estimates and made-up projections:
The forecast is based on UN figures about climate change released in 2007, and projects the impact of temperature changes that will leave the planet at least 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 Fahrenheit) warmer by 2020.
While there are more recent analyses that make slight allowances for how the Earth may adjust itself, researchers used the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, combined with "the business-as-usual path the world is currently following," said lead author Liliana Hisas.
Climate change could boost crops in US, China
Since it's a bogus study, I guess we'll just have to depend on American farmers' improving methods and efficiency to continue feeding the world. Unless Monsanto and the IPCC decide they're too rich, too.
No doubt the wealth re-distribution regime will kill off most small farmers in addition to American industry.
jw

